Curling is an ancient Scottish sport, traditionally played on frozen lochs and ponds in winter. It’s even part of the Winter Olympics but with global warming has largely had to move indoors in Scotland over recent years.
Find out more about how the combination of dedicated local enthusiasts and financial support from our renewable energy projects has helped Gargunnock Curling...
Falck Renewables and the Institut De L’Elevage (IDELE) – a leading voice in the French agriculture industry – have signed a partnership agreement to collaborate on the development of agrivoltaic projects across France.
This partnership will allow Falck Renewables to benefit from best practice and insights in the agriculture sector to apply in its agrivoltaic projects, optimizing the dual purpose...
Tuesday 5th April 2022, school children from the municipality of Illois have visited Illois windfarm to witness the erection of the turbine masts, nacelles and blades. The windfarm will consist of 6 wind turbines of 2MW and will produce enough energy to power 6,150 households.
This visit ties in with school’s curriculum about sustainable development and enables the students to...
The site becomes one of the best studied of the Bronze Age in the Duero Valley, thanks to this scientific dissemination.
An extensive archaeological study carried out at the site of our Carrecastro Wind Farm in the Valladolid region of northwest Spain has uncovered some important Bronze Age artefacts with the results set to be published later this year.
Among the...
What made you want to study renewable energy?
In both the places I live I am within only a few miles of a wind farm. I love that Scotland has such huge potential for renewable energy and am thoroughly enjoying learning more about it.
How did the financial support from Renantis help your studies?
As I’m often far away from college...
After delays due to the pandemic we finally celebrated the official openings of Åliden and Brattmyrliden wind farms in Långtjärn (Northeast Sweden) on September 28.
Community benefit schemes have been set up with associations in the communities around the wind farms to develop projects and we were delighted to celebrate our first two wind farms in Sweden with them.
Enabling sustainable development...
The refurbishment of Rogart War Memorial has been completed in time for this year’s Remembrance Sunday service, thanks to local volunteers and part funding from Falck Renewables’ Kilbraur Windfarm Community Benefit Trust.
80% of funding for the upgrade of the Memorial came from our Kilbraur Wind Farm. As well as cleaning the Memorial, work included repairing and painting the gate...
Our Auchrobert Wind Farm is looking very pretty in the snow and had some enthusiastic visitors recently.
Many thanks to Ollie and Layla and their human Les Hoggan, editor of Strathaven Echoes, for sending us this article.
Our Student Support Scheme program in Sweden has a successful applicant!
His name is Jonathan Wallin, currently enrolled at the Uppsala University to attend a Master in Wind Power project management, and coming from Brattmyrliden Wind Farm community area.
As the aim of this program is to sponsor young people from communities close to our windfarm willing to study in the...
Last year we added a new solar farm to our portfolio - the 49 MW Desafío Solar plant in the municipality of Escatrón in Zaragoza, Spain.
Located between the Ebro River and the mouth of the Martín River, Escatrón has a long history dating back to 1182 when King Alfonso II provided funding for the building of the Cistercian Rueda...
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West Browncastle – South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Near Strathaven in South Lanarkshire, West Browncastle Wind Farm has 12 turbines. Funding goes to the South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund which...